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MARK oROsBY, OF BOSTON, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO J.

FRANKLIN PEUK, AGENT, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENTIN BUREAUS OR DRESSING-CASE BEDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,986, dated November 17, 1874; application filed August 10, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARK CROSBY, of the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Bureau. or Dressing-Case Bed; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing,-forming a part of this specification, in which Figurelis a sectional side elevation with bed extended; Fig. 2,a transverse section through line a: av,- Fig. 3, detail plan view of the ways 0. The object of this invention is to provide a bedstead-that shall be so constructed and arranged in combination with a bureau or dressing-case as to admit of its being folded within the same when not in use; and consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing, A represents a bureau or dressing-case, having the rear portion B and its lower part 0 hollow to receive the bedstead.

D is averticallv-hinged leaf attached to the lower part of the rear of the case. E is the bedstead, having the head section F hinged to the main frame G at a, and provided with legs I). The said head section F slides when the bed is disposed within the case upon the ways 0 attached horizontally to the lower sides of the case A, and the said ways are provided with lugs d, which, by engaging with'a ledge on the head -board hold the said section F upon the ways. At the end of the main frame G are the folding-legs H, which are pivoted at c to the frame, and have shoulders f, upon which said frame rests when the legs are in a vertical position. I is a button or other suitable fastening attached to the top of the case,

by means of which the bedstead is held in the case when folded. v

When the bed is to be used, the section G is taken down by removing the fastening, and the entire bedstead drawn out until the flanges of the head-board rest against the lugs upon the ways. When thebedstead has been placed in this position the hinged leaf D rests upon the head-board, and, being in a horizontal position, adds to the length of the bed by affording a place for the bolster and pillows.

By means of this arrangementis constructed a combined dressing-case and bedstead, or bureau and bedstead, which as an article of household furniture is unsurpassed for convenience and utility, it being especially adapt ed, by reason of its compactness,'to the use of cottages, camp-meeting-tents, and in all cases where house-room is an object.

I know that it is not new to combine a folding bed with a bureau, wardrobe, or dressingcase, and consequently do not claim such combination, broadly, but confine myself to the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as is pointed out in the claim.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with a bureau or dressingcase, having back and lower recesses B" C, re spectively, a bedstead having hinged sections G F, constructed as latter can be shoved into the recess 0 and the former folded into the recess B, as and for the purpose specified.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 27th day of July, A. D. 1874.

Witnesses: MARK CROSBY.

O. R. ORosBY, JAMES H. GRIDLEY.

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